Ig Nobel Prize

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• How did the Ig Nobel committee justify awarding him the literature prize?
• What founding principle of the Ig Nobel Prize does the Quayle award illustrate?
• What kind of research does the Ig Nobel Biology prize typically single out?
• What later discovery made André Geim the only person to hold both an Ig Nobel and a Nobel Prize?
• What made the Ig Nobel committee treat a technical standard as a literary text?
• What was the Ig Nobel committee actually mocking — the science or the arithmetic of credit?
• What was the exact phrasing of the Ig Nobel committee's citation for Dan Quayle?
• Which financial institutions were honoured by the 2010 Ig Nobel Economics prize and why?
• Who is the only person to have won both a Nobel Prize and an Ig Nobel Prize?
• Why did the Ig Nobel committee award the Peace Prize jointly to Lukashenko and the state police?
• Why did the Ig Nobel committee choose to award the Economics prize to Iceland's bank executives?
• Why did the Ig Nobel committee classify a scented suit under environmental protection?

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• Ig Nobel Prize in Art
• Ig Nobel Prize in Biology
• Ig Nobel Prize in Biology
• Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Ig Nobel Prize in Economics
• Ig Nobel Prize in Economics
• Ig Nobel Prize in Economics
• Ig Nobel Prize in Economics
• Ig Nobel Prize in Education
• Ig Nobel Prize in Environmental Protection
• Ig Nobel Prize in Literature
• Ig Nobel Prize in Literature

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